Language Diversity and Academic Writing
A Bedford Spotlight ReaderFirst Edition| ©2018 Samantha Looker-Koenigs
The Bedford Spotlight Reader Series is an exciting line of single-theme readers, each featuring Bedford’s trademark care and quality. An Editorial Board of more than a dozen compositionists at schools focusing on specific themes assists in the development of the series. The readers in the series collect thoughtfully chosen readings sufficient for an entire writing course—about 35 selections—to allow instructors to provide carefully developed, high-quality instruction at an affordable price. Bedford Spotlight Readers are designed to help students make inquiries from multiple perspectives, opening up topics such as subcultures,, music, borders, humor, monsters, happiness, money, food, sustainability, and gender to critical analysis. The readers are flexibly arranged in thematic chapters, each focusing in depth on a different facet of the central topic.
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A brief and versatile reader about language at an affordable price
Language Diversity and Academic Writing encourages students to understand the diversity within their own and others language and apply that knowledge to their academic writing. Readings by linguists, journalists, novelists, educators, writing researchers, and student writers explore a range of questions about language and writing: How does language reflect and construct our identities and influence how we are perceived by others? How do the features and rules of language and writing change over time and across situations? How do we position ourselves as writers in academic contexts and beyond? Questions and assignments for each selection provide a range of activities for students, and the website for the Spotlight series (macmillanlearning.com/spotlight) offers comprehensive instructor support with sample syllabi and additional teaching resources.
The Bedford Spotlight Reader Series is an exciting line of single-theme readers, each featuring Bedford’s trademark care and quality. An Editorial Board of more than a dozen compositionists at schools focusing on specific themes assists in the development of the series. The readers in the series collect thoughtfully chosen readings sufficient for an entire writing course—about 35 selections—to allow instructors to provide carefully developed, high-quality instruction at an affordable price. Bedford Spotlight Readers are designed to help students make inquiries from multiple perspectives, opening up topics such as subcultures,, music, borders, humor, monsters, happiness, money, food, sustainability, and gender to critical analysis. The readers are flexibly arranged in thematic chapters, each focusing in depth on a different facet of the central topic.
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Bedford care and quality in every volume. Each volume in the Bedford Spotlight series is developed with attention to design, pedagogy, and compelling readings that work in the classroom.
Affordable, and an ideal package option. Each Spotlight Reader offers plenty of material for a composition course while keeping the price low. Package any Spotlight Reader with Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing: A Bedford Spotlight Rhetoric, by Jeff Ousborne, for free, or combine a Spotlight Reader with a Bedford/St. Martins rhetoric or handbook for a significant discount.
Multiple perspectives on the role of language diversity in academic discussion. In order to foster student engagement, five chapters, built around central questions on the complexity of language as it applies to academic writing, offer numerous entry points for inquiry and discussion. A mix of genres as well as accessible and challenging selections allows instructors to tailor their approach to each classroom. For instance:
- Susan Tamasi and Lamont Antieau, in "Social Variables," discuss several social factors that affect language, including gender, age, and sexual orientation.
- Douglas Quenqua, in "They’re, Like, Way Ahead of the Linguistic Currrrve," summarizes linguistic research showing that young women are often leaders in language change.
- Paul Kei Matsuda, in "The Image of College Students and the Myth of Linguistic Homogeneity," contends that, when it comes to college students’ language backgrounds, many teachers operate with "an image of prototypical students" that "inaccurately represents the actual student population in the classroom."
Thoughtful support for writers and instructors. A general introduction, chapter introductions, and headnotes provide context, and prompts and assignments offer suggestions for discussion, informal writing, research; ways to connect selections; and assignments for writing. A website for the series offers support for teaching the themes in each volume.
An appendix, "Sentence Guides for Academic Writers." This section helps with an essential skill: working with and responding to others’ ideas. This practical module helps students develop an academic writing voice by giving them sentence guides, or templates, to follow in a variety of composing situations.
New to This Edition
"Translating academic writing from a mystifying monolith into a language variety that is diverse, dynamic, and shaped by language ideologies—just like any other—this book equips students to investigate and challenge the notions of ‘good English’ and ‘good writing’ that surround them in and out of academia."
-Andrea Olinger, University of Louisville
"Language Diversity and Academic Writing will be an invaluable resource for instructors who want to combine a ‘writing about writing’ approach to composition instruction with topical inquiry in language politics, access, and diversity."
-Christa Olson, University of Wisconsin--Madison
"Language Diversity and Academic Writing is a text that will allow students to both analyze the ways in which we use and perceive language and utilize that analysis in order to become strong writers."
-Errin Jordan, University of North Dakota
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Language Diversity and Academic Writing
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Samantha Looker-Koenigs
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Language Diversity and Academic Writing
First Edition| 2018
Samantha Looker-Koenigs
Table of Contents
About the Bedford Spotlight Reader Series
Preface for Instructors
Contents by Discipline
Contents by Theme
Contents by Rhetorical Purpose
Introduction for Students
Chapter One: How Does Language Reflect Who We Are?
Lee Romney, Revival of Nearly Extinct Yurok Language Is a Success Story
Louise Erdrich, Two Languages in Mind, but Just One in the Heart
Amy Tan, Mother Tongue
Gloria Anzaldúa, How to Tame a Wild Tongue
Susan Tamasi and Lamont Antieau, Social Variables
Connie Eble, from Slang and Sociability: In-Group Language among College Students
H. Samy Alim, Hip Hop Nation Language
Chapter Two: How Does Language Affect How Others Perceive Us?
Marybeth Seitz-Brown, Young Women Shouldn’t Have to Talk Like Men to Be Taken Seriously
Dennis Preston, Some Plain Facts about Americans and Their Language
Cheryl J. Boucher, Georgina S. Hammock, Selina D. McLaughlin, and Kelsey N. Henry, Perceptions of Competency as a Function of Accent
Carmen Fought, Are White People Ethnic? Whiteness, Dominance, and Ethnicity
John McWhorter, Straight Talk: What Harry Reid Gets about Black English
Rusty Barrett, Rewarding Language: Language Ideology and Prescriptive Grammar
Kathryn Campbell-Kibler, Intersecting Variables and Perceived Sexual Orientation in Men
Chapter Three: How Does Language Change (Whether We Like It or Not)?
Mark Peters, He Said, Sheme Said
Tom Chatfield, OMG—It’s the Textual Revolution
Naomi S. Baron, Are Digital Media Changing Language?
Douglas Quenqua, They’re, Like, Way Ahead of the Linguistic Currrrve
Edwin L. Battistella, Slang as Bad Language
Robert MacNeil, English Belongs to Everybody
Erin McKean, How Are Dictionaries Made?
Robert MacNeil and William Cran, The Language Wars
Rosina Lippi-Green, The Standard Language Myth
Chapter Four: What Do We Do When We Write?
Kevin Roozen, Writing Is a Social and Rhetorical Activity
Kevin Roozen, Writing Is Linked to Identity
Paul Kei Matsuda, Writing Involves the Negotiation of Language Differences
Peter Elbow, Speaking and Writing
Susan Wyche, Time, Tools, and Talismans
Mike Rose, Rigid Rules, Inflexible Plans, and the Stifling of Language
Carie Gauthier, Metaphors in the Writing Process of Student Writers (student essay)
Chapter Five: What Does It Mean to Write "Academically"?
Dan Berrett, Students Come to College Thinking They’ve Mastered Writing
Chris Thaiss and Terry Myers Zawacki, What Is Academic Writing? What Are Its Standards?
Susan E. Schorn, A Lot Like Us, but More So: Listening to Writing Faculty Across the Curriculum
J. Paul Johnson and Ethan Krase, Writing in the Disciplines: A Case Study of Two Writers
Paul Kei Matsuda, The Image of College Students and the Myth of Linguistic Homogeneity
Helen Fox, Worldwide Strategies for Indirection
Vershawn Ashanti Young, The Problem of Linguistic Double Consciousness
Nancy Sommers and Laura Saltz, Writing that Matters: A Paradigm Shift
Anne E. Whitney, "I Just Turned In What I Thought": Authority and Voice in Student Writing
Authors
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Samantha Looker-Koenigs
Samantha Looker-Koenigs is Associate Professor of English and Director of First-Year Writing at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. In addition to her language-themed first-year writing course, she regularly teaches undergraduate and graduate English courses on theories of rhetoric and writing. Her research--published most recently in Teaching English in the Two-Year College and in Bruce Horner, Brice Nordquist, and Susan Ryans collection Economies of Writing: Revaluations in Rhetoric and Composition--explores the role of linguistic diversity in first-year writing pedagogy. She earned a B.A. in English linguistics from Arizona State University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in English with a specialization in writing studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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